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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 48) Winter 2004 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 48 Our leader Simon Matthews Blair Anthony Seldon London: Free Press (Simon& Shuster), 2004, h/b, 20 What a tome! At 755 pages, with 40 chapters and 3000 plus footnotes, the book is neatly divided into chapters on either specific historical periods or significant individuals. The picture that emerges of Blair is striking in its variance from much of his public image but not necessarily to his disadvantage. He is ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 43) Summer 2002 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 43 Blair and Israel In January 1994, three months before John Smith's death, the then shadow Home Secretary Tony Blair, with wife Cherie Booth, went on a trip to Israel at the Israeli government's expense- a trip, incidentally, neither the Sopel nor Rentoul biographies of Blair mentioned. (1) Blair had always been sympathetic to Israel, had shared chambers with Board of Deputies of British Jews President Eldred Tabachnik, (2) ...
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... /6 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 50 The Blairs and their Court Francis Beckett and David Hencke London: Aurum Press, 2004, 18.99, h/b John Newsinger According to Beckett and Hencke, in the late 1980s Nigel Lawson could never understand why Tony Blair was a member of the Labour Party rather than of the Conservative Party. This question subsequently occurred to a growing number of Labour Party members and the answer they came up with saw tens of thousands of them becoming ex-Labour Party members. More important, of course ...
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... a million Britons on the streets of London protesting against the Iraq war earlier this year there is a potentially large audience for a critical review of what led this country to that invasion. Even his title, Web of Deceit, catches the growing public perception of Tony Blair in leading the country into war on a false prospectus. Coming after The Ambiguities of Power in 1995 and The Great Deception in 1998, this is Curtis's third trawl through government documents from the perspective of those at the receiving end of British foreign policy. In ...
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... diaries, Wyatt was Rupert Murdoch's fixer in London and, in particular, acted as his go-between, first with Margaret Thatcher, and later with John Major. This material is extremely interesting, providing, among other things, an insider's account of Murdoch's embrace of Tony Blair and New Labour. In a country with a more robust democratic tradition what Wyatt reveals would be a scandal, in Britain we have become so used to governments courting Murdoch that it hardly draws comment. What is there here of Wyatt's connection with the world of ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 45) Summer 2003 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 45 Harassing Robert Henderson In 1997 Robert Henderson, a retired civil servant, wrote to the then leader of the Opposition Tony Blair to ask for his help. Eventually he wrote a dozen or so letters to Blair and Cherie Booth. Blair then tried to have him prosecuted but the legal authorities refused to act. Blair or someone close to him then set the tabloids on him and he was smeared in the Daily Mirror (also used to ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 39) Summer 2000 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 39 Right meets Left The Robert Henderson/Tony Blair story. Having failed to persuade any section of the British political class then in power to do anything about a wrong he had suffered at the hands of the media, Robert Henderson wrote letters to the then Leader of the Opposition, Tony Blair- 13 letters in all. This is Henderson's version of what happened next; this is his view of what he thinks is an enormous scandal ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 40) Winter 2000/1 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 40 The View from the Bridge The funding of Blair Sometimes chronology implies causality and sometimes not. Consider the following sequence of events: in January 1994 Tony Blair, then Shadow Home Secretary and career-long member of the Labour Friends of Israel, took a four day freebie trip to Israel, with his wife, at the expense of the Israeli government. Two months later Tony Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at a dinner party by ...
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... of the New Labour people and their relationships with the media, from the days of opposition through to Campbell's resignation in the wake of the death of Dr David Kelly, would be my nomination. All the familiar events in the great saga of 'spin', the Blair group's attempt to manage the British media, are here; and done in great detail. Almost incidentally, this is also the best study of the incompetent, lazy, craven British political journalist I am aware of. Looked at closely like this, the little ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 52) Winter 2006/7 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 52 Yo, Blair! The unspeakable Martin Kettle of The Guardian is a political journalist who has been pretty close to, and supportive of, New Labour since the 1990s. His article 'The special relationship that squandered a noble cause' (27 May 2006) opened with this: 'The long arc of Tony Blair's rise and decline has been punctuated by journeys to Washington. He went there first with Gordon Brown in January 1993. ...
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